Mozambique: Health authorities record 9,000 cases of cholera in seven provinces
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Twenty-eight cases of notifiable diseases – any of various health conditions which when detected must be reported to public health authorities – have been identified at the Instituto Industrial de Matundo accommodation centre in the city of Tete, currently being used to house people displaced by tropical storm Ana.
Of the 28 cases diagnosed, eight are respiratory diseases, and the rest are waterborne diseases resulting from poor sanitation.
According to WHO Africa, contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio.
Patients with mild respiratory complications took rapid Covid-19 tests, but all came back negative for the disease.
The provincial director of Health, in Tete, Alex Bertil, said that the individuals in question were isolated in a separate tent, and that a team of health professionals had been mobilised to provide psychosocial support to affected families in the two accommodation centres in the city.
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